List of Māori deities

This is a list of Māori deities, known in Māori as atua.

Note: there are two Mythologies relating Tangaroa, Papatuanuku and Ranginui (Raki)

Major departmental deities

 * Haumiatiketike, the god of uncultivated food, particularly bracken fern.
 * Papatūānuku, the primordial earth mother.
 * Ranginui, the primordial sky father.
 * Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated foods, particularly sweet potato / Kumara.
 * Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds.
 * Tangaroa, the god of the ocean and the creatures within. (Original Father in the Main Mythology)
 * Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and violent weather.
 * Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food cultivation.
 * Whiro, the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil and death.
 * Aituā, the god of death, happiness, and misfortune.
 * Ao, a personification of light.
 * Auahitūroa, the personification of comets, and the origin of the fire.
 * Haere, several personifications of the rainbow.
 * Ikatere, a fish god and father of all sea creatures.
 * Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest.
 * Kahukura, a war god who appears as the upper bow of a double rainbow.
 * Kiwa, one of several divine guardians of the ocean.
 * Makeatutara, the father of Māui and guardian of the underworld.
 * Maru, the god of freshwater, southern god of war.
 * Mataaho, a god of earthquakes and volcanoes from the Tāmaki Makaurau Region (Auckland).
 * Māui, a demigod, culture hero, and trickster.
 * Motoro
 * Ngahue or Kahue, the god or discoverer of pounamu, the taniwha Poutini is his guardian.
 * Pūhaorangi, a celestial being who descended from the heavens to sleep with the beautiful maiden Te Kuraimonoa.
 * Punga or Hairi, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things.
 * Rehua, the star god with the power of healing.
 * Rongomai, the name of a number of separate beings.
 * Rongo, the god of crops and peace
 * Ruaumoko, the god of volcanoes, earthquakes, and seasons.
 * Tamanuiterā, the personification of the sun.
 * Tane-rore, the personification of shimmering air.
 * Tāwhaki, a semi-supernatural being associated with thunder and lightning.
 * Te Uira, the personification of lightning.
 * Tiki, the first human, but sometimes is a child of Rangi and Papa, and creates the first human.
 * Tinirau, a guardian of fish.
 * Tūtewehiwehi, the father of all reptiles.
 * Uenuku, a god of the rainbow, associated with war. Also a deified ancestor.
 * Urutengangana, the god of the light.

Female atua

 * Ārohirohi, the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat.
 * Hinauri, sister, or uncommonly, wife of Māui, associated with the moon.
 * Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty.
 * Hinehōaka, the goddess of sandstone, the taniwha Whatipū is her guardian.
 * Hinenuitepō, the goddess of night and death, and ruler of the underworld.
 * Hinepūkohurangi, the goddess of the mist
 * Hineteiwaiwa, the goddess of childbirth, te whare pora and the arts
 * Hinemoana, the goddess of the ocean
 * Ikaroa, the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way.
 * Kohara
 * Kui, the chthonic demigod.
 * Mahuika, the goddess of fire.
 * Moekahu, a lesser known goddess (or god) of Tūhoe whose form was of a dog (kurī), and a sibling of Haere.
 * Rohe, the goddess of the spirit world.
 * Tangotango, a celestial woman who fell in love with the great hero Tāwhaki and came to earth to become his wife.
 * Tūāwhiorangi, the wife of Kahukura who manifests as the lower bow during a double rainbow.
 * Whaitiri, the personification of thunder.